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It's not just the politicos,it's more pervasive than that,its in everyday walk of life ... and its especially true in this Forum.

@VaBeach, it is also know as "if you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit." Also know as being a politician. Doesn't matter if it is an elephant or a donkey.

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I was married when we had our first introduction into the lifestyle. Our neighbors were swingers and invited us to a party they were having (vanilla). After the party we hung around and helped clean up. Afterwards, we sat around and had a drink, then started dancing, switched partners and then things went from there...

Several years later my wife and I split up and divorced (not due to the lifestyle). I continued in the lifestyle to this day and have met a lot of awesome people along the way

Well, that certainly explains why we enjoyed living on base so much ;)

With today being Veteran’s Day, here is one more thing to thank them for. WWII Army pilots are credited with bringing the LS to North America.

From Terry Gould, author of “The Lifestyle, a cultural history of the swinging movement in the United States”:

“…Organized “wife swapping” was started in the 1940s on U.S. Air Force bases by fighter pilots and their wives. Researchers found it was “a kind of tribal bonding ritual, with a tacit understanding that the two thirds of husbands who survived would look after the widows…”

(Wikipedia: “Swinging (sexual practice))

“…Though the origins of swinging are contested, it is assumed American swinging was practiced in some American military communities in the 1950s. By the time the Korean War ended, swinging had spread from the military to the suburbs. The media dubbed the phenomenon wife-swapping…”

(Wikipedia: “Swinging (sexual practice))

I learned a new term for something I had always been aware of, I just didn't have a name for it: "gish gallop". I always just thought it was "arguing like Perf".

A gish gallop is a lousy debating technique where one attempts to overwhelm the opponent with a large number of unrelated, disconnected and poor quality arguments, bogging the other person down in an endless stream of unnecessary rebuttals.

For example, I saw this bozo - I think it was Kevin McCarthy but I can't find the clip- being asked about a response to subpoenas about Jan. 6 commission testimony. He didn't answer at all and instead went on a rant about the failures of this (Biden) administration, the porousness of the southern border, gas prices, illegal mandates blah blah blah. Basically he threw out 7 or so topics unrelated to the one at hand or even each other, and to completely answer to would take hours. The interviewer cut him off and just said "got it. You won't answer."

@DTH

Interesting. Just got back from Vegas and can testify that the Gruen Transfer is definitely a thing when it comes to Casinos.

Nah. I remember once googling and finding the same handle - with the same high school-type picture- on other sites, but it seems to have completely gone dark.

Fight the power, Robert.

So VA, did you find out what happened to lil Bobby? Did he ever get out of his parents basement? My guess is that he's still at his security guard gig in his leaky old jeep.

Who'd have thought

The feeling of getting lost inside a mall is known as the Gruen transfer.

We've all heard how casinos are designed to deliberately disorient visitors, causing them to lose track of time and where exactly they are. But did you know that there's a similar strategy behind the design of shopping malls as well? Officially known as the "Gruen transfer," this phenomenon was named after Austrian architect Victor Gruen, who identified how an intentionally confusing layout could lead to consumers spending more time and money in a shopping venue (though he would later disavow the approach).

Yeah well sometimes "fun" can be "interesting", "noteworthy", etc.

I found the page by searching to see whatever happened to our old buddy "Robert_Hil" (one L). So I searched "Robert_Hil" and swinglifestyle. And there it was.

Amazingly, even though they promptly zapped my post reporting the issue, it seems that the site has actually fixed the glitch that allowed this. So, kudos, guys, on fixing it, even though you did your best to prevent anyone from finding out it happened.

"Link to an SLS site page which appeared to list every single account with its associated database ID."

You have an unusual definition of "fun."

Yeah they didn't like it

Link to an SLS site page which appeared to list every single account with its associated database ID.

LOL

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@VA

My cousin from Jacksonville once explained to me that Floridians were more or less professional drinkers and that this was a natural consequence of the length of their party season.

My assumption was based on the cold long winters and having read somewhere about Alaska’s high alcoholism rate. Maybe the latter, and your comment about the stature of the native population are connected?

As for all of those poor animals dying, it’s a sad fact that laboratory animals are eventually euthanized as a general practice once the lab is done with them.

Ok, now, I’m feeling a little depressed.

BT

BT,

I’m not surprised about Alaska. I lived out on the tundra for a bit and daily drinking wasn’t a thing. Most of the villages were dry or damp (you could own alcohol but couldn’t purchase it). There were no bars. During the summer months most everyone was working really hard during the week. Most of the drinking I saw was on the weekends when someone brought in a case of beer and booze for a party and people would drink until black out. Most of my Inuit friends were fairly small in stature and it didn’t take much to get them hammered.

Florida was below the national average??

There is a really strong alcohol culture here, for sure. This really surprised me.

Mayhem, I miss my trips across the border to the big red barn.

I would have bet money that Alaska would have been numero uno.

BT

Was watching a Youtube on the top 10 states with the largest per capita alcohol consumption. I guess I shouldn't be too surprised that NH was #1. Was a little surprising that we beat #2 (district of Columbia) by nearly a gallon. Yikes.

In spite of that, somehow we were nowhere near #1 when it came to the bidge drinking rate. I guess we just pace ourselves better?

The reality is that NH has really cheap booze compared to any of the surrounding states, so they are likely accounting for all of the non-residents coming over the border to buy booze as if they were residents.

Three idiots, MOE, LARRY & CURRLY to the Senate Committee. All three are failures and should be fired.

@Hot

In my defense, every one of those animals was delicious...

I wasn’t sure where to post this, but since I am amused, I’m putting it here in Fun Facts.

Did you know that all the animals used for the Covid vaccine testing have died? They didn’t die right away, but about four months after being injected. So look for vaccinated humans to start dropping off late March/April. If you don’t hear about the deaths that in itself will be proof of a coverup.

We received these incontrovertible facts from a couple who contacted us wanting to set up a meetNgreet. Their email was nicely worded, calm, and generally sane until they added the above info almost as a postscript

Especially the early years, pre-2005. Now when the Darwin awards are published people expect to see a link to an actual news story.